💼 Professional experience

Data Scientist / Researcher

Mar 2023 – present
TECNALIA Research & Innovation · Digital Construction · Bilbao / Derio
  • VR/AR, real-time object detection algorithms (YOLO), evolutionary algorithms and time series.
  • Scientific paper co-authoring.
  • Team-wise MLOps technology and procedures implementation.
  • Preparing and presenting proposals and R&D grants, managing client relationships.

Co-founder & CEO

Oct 2012 – present
TOKITEK Innovation · Geo-mobile apps, software · Bilbao

Geolocation and communication apps: 25+ apps, 35k+ downloads.

  • General management, product owner and project management, business development, BI and marketing.
  • UI/UX design and user A/B tests.
  • Development and production of the apps.
  • Products: Nik Hondartzak (beach app for Gipuzkoa), LPA Beach and more, on the Tokitek page.

Data Scientist & Developer

2022 – present
Algo trading bot · Personal project
  • Brought to production an end-to-end crypto and FOREX trading bot for 2 exchanges.
  • Backtesting, parallelization, REST connections, 15-minute time frame, strategies over portfolios of 100+ instruments, and a monitoring dashboard.

Data Scientist

Apr 2019 – Oct 2022
LOOKIERO · Fashiontech, online retail · Bilbao
  • Completed an end-to-end supply-chain buying recommender system: 2M USD/month spend, 1k+ product segments, time-series demand forecasting (8 algorithms), Newsvendor problem and business-rules parametrization.
  • Transformed the catalog ontology: PCA, UMAP, t-SNE, k-means, hierarchical clustering, random forest, XGBoost, H2O, SOM, (dis)similarity matrices and 3D visualization.
  • 200+ data analyses and business decision-support tools (Google Sheets/Slides, Shiny, notebooks).
  • Migration to Databricks with tech leads and data engineers.
  • Built an R library for projects and analytics.
  • Scientific documentation (LaTeX).
  • Led the inventory data squad; PM and PO of the buying recommender; onboarding.

Data Product Manager

Sep 2018 – Apr 2019
SUHALUR · Steel, Industry 4.0 · Bilbao

Initiated an 830k EUR EC-funded RFCS project with steel-sector partners (Gestamp, Gescrap, CELSA, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid).

  • Designed the initial product and interviewed the 3 partners.
  • Defined and assisted project planning and coordination.
  • Scope: big data, IoT and ML applied to manufacturing, a system that tracks process and worker signals to propose lean-manufacturing, health and safety improvements.

Controller & Analytics

Apr 2009 – Sep 2012
SKY SOLAR GROUP / Sky Energy Services · Photovoltaic, energy · Madrid, then Bilbao
  • Launched the Spanish and LATAM subsidiary.
  • Built a corporate tool for financial and technical project evaluation.
  • Liaison with the CFO in Beijing; US-GAAP/IFRS compliance and consolidation reporting.
  • Due diligence of 50+ investment opportunities; business development.
  • KPIs for company performance.

Senior Consultant

Jan 2006 – Apr 2009
IDOM · Consulting · Bilbao
  • Delivered 8 projects: supply chain, logistics, operations and management consulting.
  • Logistic network reorganization; transport and distribution feasibility studies.
  • Vessel Traffic Management System (VTMS) definition for world-class ports.
  • Algorithm design (Croston, Holt-Winters, TSP); process and queue simulation; BI.

Consultant

Jul 2003 – Jan 2006
Management Solutions · Consulting, for BBVA · Bilbao

Functional design of management and reporting tools for the MIS department of a top-2 Spanish bank: gap analysis of corporate information repositories, functionality proposals, preliminary application designs and master plans.

📱 Tokitek

Co-founder and CEO of Tokitek Innovation: location-first mobile and web apps, built and maintained end to end. Products include Nik Hondartzak (beach occupancy for Gipuzkoa, 30,000+ downloads in its first week), LPA Beach, Caostica and platforms such as Eventoki and Udaltoki.

See the Tokitek page →

🎓 Education

Master's degree in Business Administration (Licenciatura ADE, Operations Research)

1999 – 2004
Universidad de Deusto · Deusto Business School

MBA Management Development (Desarrollo Directivo)

2003 – 2004
Universidad de Deusto · Deusto Business School

Data Science Expert (postgraduate)

2018
Mondragon Unibertsitatea

Also: Big Data for Industry (2018), Power BI (2018), Machine Learning and Deep Learning.

Electronic Engineering BS

In progress
UNED

📜 MOOCs

Online courses with certificates (PDF).

Machine Learning

Stanford University · Andrew Ng

Coursera · 10/03/2013

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Neural Networks for Machine Learning

University of Toronto · Geoffrey E. Hinton

Coursera · 19/12/2012

With distinction

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Social Network Analysis

University of Michigan · Lada Adamic

Coursera · 06/12/2012

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Introduction to Systematic Program Design – Part 1

University of British Columbia · Gregor Kiczales

Coursera · 26/11/2013

With distinction

View certificate (PDF)

✅ Certifications

Certifications

  • Databricks Academy Accreditation – Lakehouse Fundamentals
  • Pandas: joining data
  • Pandas: data manipulation
  • Machine Learning
  • Introduction to Data Science in Python

🛠️ Skills

Methods

  • Time-series forecasting
  • Product segmentation & similarity
  • Outlier detection
  • TSP route optimization
  • Genetic algorithms
  • Queue simulation
  • Visualization
  • Object detection (YOLO)
  • Evolutionary algorithms

Coding

  • Python
  • R
  • Scripting
  • Notebooks
  • OOP
  • crontab
  • ETL (REST, SSH, AWS, APIs)
  • Git
  • LaTeX
  • Library & package building
  • PyTorch

Data

  • SQL
  • Databricks
  • Spark
  • MLflow

BI

  • Power BI
  • Tableau
  • Shiny
  • Excel (VBA)
  • Google Sheets

Soft skills

  • Agile
  • PO & PM
  • Scientific & technical documentation
  • Own-company client and decision-making experience
  • Problem & methodology definition
  • Presentations & visualization design

Languages

  • Spanish (native)
  • English (fluent, C2)

🏅 Honors & awards

KOPURU data challenge

1st place

Fault detection in relay tests: quality control, statistical process control, R + Shiny.

Entrepreneurship challenge

Challenge "Apps que fomenten el emprendimiento en la ciudad" (apps fostering entrepreneurship in the city).

BEAZ grants

2 grants: Sky Solar and Tokitek (project Eldertoki).

Route optimizer

TSP genetic algorithm (repo genetic-algo).

GAIA

Associate member of GAIA, the Basque Electronics and ICT Cluster.